Dieter Appelt quotes

“A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed.”
-- Dieter Appelt

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“White is the color of decomposition. White is also no color. White is nothing. In photography, the paper is white, next comes the light, which is also white, then the shadow is created, the apparition.”
-- Dieter Appelt

Source : Sylvia Wolf, Dieter Appelt, Wieland Schmied (1994). “Dieter Appelt”, Art Institute of Chicago

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“Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath.”

“If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.”

“The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.”

“I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there and make this a record for mass consumption, this was really just a way for me to get out of my own situation and reclaim that part of myself - so when making the songs, I wanted a testament to what I'd gone through, I wanted a snapshot of those moments.”

“The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of it.”

“Every life has one true love snapshot.”

“The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size”

“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”

Source : Alberto Manguel (2011). “A Reading Diary”, p.66, Vintage Canada

“For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, But falls still further from its former shore.”

“You can't stamp on people and not get hurt in return.”

Source : Alexei Panshin (1982). “Rite of passage”, Pocket